| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: tarnished and dusty. I had to raise my voice in the dull vibrating
noise of the roadway.
"You don't mean to say you have forgotten the connection?"
She cried readily enough: "I wasn't thinking." And then, while I
wondered what could have been the images occupying her brain at this
time, she asked me: "You didn't see my letter to Mrs. Fyne--did
you?"
"No. I didn't," I shouted. Just then the racket was distracting, a
pair-horse trolly lightly loaded with loose rods of iron passing
slowly very near us. "I wasn't trusted so far." And remembering
Mrs. Fyne's hints that the girl was unbalanced, I added: "Was it an
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: back to the bathroom, and she had resisted the desire to
kiss him because Theodore disliked demonstration. "He hated
to be pawed over," was the way he put it. After he had
gone, Mrs. Brandeis went into the dining-room where Fanny
was sitting. Mattie had cleared the table, and Fanny was
busy over a book and a tablet, by the light of the lamp that
they always used for studying. It was one of the rare
occasions when she had brought home a school lesson. It was
arithmetic, and Fanny loathed arithmetic. She had no head
for mathematics. The set of problems were eighth-grade
horrors, in which A is digging a well 20 feet deep and 9
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: see good will. One has more happiness in oneself in endeavouring to
follow the things that make for peace. You can hardly imagine how
often I have been heated in private when opposed, as I have thought,
unjustly and superciliously, and yet I have striven, and succeeded,
I hope, in keeping down replies of the like kind. And I know I have
never lost by it. I would not say all this to you did I not esteem
you as a true philosopher and friend.[1]
'Yours, very truly,
'M. Faraday.'
Footnote to Chapter 4
[1] Faraday would have been rejoiced to learn that, during its last
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